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The dust has yet to settle but already there is talk of the next reshuffle.

David Cameron told his new ministerial line-up that they were the team to achieve economic growth and, by implication, a revival of Conservative — if not Liberal Democrat — fortunes by 2015. However, a different message was being sent to the massed ranks of the nearlys and the not-quites on the back benches: there’s another chance coming your way soon.

After waiting 2½ years for his first reshuffle, Mr Cameron will be ready to do it all again in a year, sources on both sides of the